List of sieges of Gibraltar
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List of sieges of Gibraltar
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There have been fourteen recorded sieges of Gibraltar. Although the peninsula of Gibraltar is only 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) long and 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) wide, it occupies an extremely strategic location on the southern Iberian coast at the western entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. Its position just across the eponymous Strait from Morocco in North Africa, as well as its natural defensibility, have made it one of the most fought-over places in Europe. Only five of the sieges resulted in a change
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sieges_of_Gibraltar
date created:
2012-10-27T22:37:03Z
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2024-09-03T13:35:30Z
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13
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